Liya Fan created ARROW-10492:
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Summary: [Java][JDBC] Allow users to config the mapping between
SQL types and Arrow types
Key: ARROW-10492
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10492
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Java
Reporter: Liya Fan
Assignee: Liya Fan
According to the current implementation of JDBC adapter, the conversion between
SQL types and Arrow types is hard-coded. This will cause some problems in
practice:
# The appropriate conversion may vary for different databases. For example,
for SQL Server, type {{real}} corresponds to 4 byte floating point values
([https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/float-and-real-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15),]
whereas for SQLite, \{{real}} corresponds to 8 byte floating point values
([https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-data-types/).] If the maping is not
right, some extra conversion would happen, which can impact performance
severely.
# Our current implementation determines the type conversion solely based on
the type ID. However, the appropriate conversion may also depend some other
information, like precision and scale. For example, for {{FLOAT(n)}}, it should
correspond to 4 byte floating point values, if n <= 24, otherwise, it should
correspond to 8 byte floating point values.
To address the problems, we should allow users to customize the conversion
between SQL and Arrow types.
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